Zak Witus

Zak Witus is a masters student at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, where he studies the modern political history of the Middle East with a focus on Israel and Palestine. Zak is working as a Middle East/North Africa advocacy fellow at Amnesty International USA during the summer of 2019. Zak’s past work has appeared in Truthout, the Forward, the Palestine-Israel Journal(in print and blog) as well as +972.

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